1st Edition
The Problem of Democracy in Postwar Europe Political Actors and the Formation of the Postwar Model of Democracy in France, West Germany and Italy
By Pepijn Corduwener
Copyright 2017
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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The current perception of democratic crisis in Western Europe gives a renewed urgency to a new perspective on the way democracy was reconstructed after World War II and the principles that underpinned its postwar transformation. This study accounts for the formation of the postwar democratic order in Western Europe by studying how the main political actors in France, West Germany and Italy... Read more
Introduction
1. Transforming Democracy After the Second World War
2. Contesting Democratic Legitimacy During the Cold War
3. Converging Conceptions of Democracy at the Turn of the 1960s
4. Political Elites and the Challenge to the Parliamentary Model
5. Democracy Between Crisis and Consensus After the 1973 Oil Crisis
Conclusion
Biography
Pepijn Corduwener is an Assistant Professor in History at Utrecht University.
